William H. Press
William H. Press, professor of computer science and integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to serve as president-elect of AAAS beginning 21 February, at the close of the 2011 Annual Meeting.
Press, a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), is a noted researcher in computer science, genomics, statistical methods, astrophysics, and international security. He previously served as deputy laboratory director for science and technology at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1998 to 2004. He was a professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard University from 1976 to 1998.
He will become president of AAAS at the close of the 2012 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Nina V. Fedoroff
At the close of 2011 meeting, Nina V. Fedoroff began a one-year term as AAAS president. Fedoroff, a geneticist and molecular biologist, is a pioneering researcher in the modern study of plant genetics, plant responses to environmental stress, and genetically modified crops. She served as the science adviser to the U.S. Department of State and USAID from 2007 to 2010, and is now a Distinguished Visiting Professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and an Evan Pugh Professor at Pennsylvania State University.
Alice S. Huang
The former president, Alice S. Huang, has begun a one-year term as chairman of the AAAS Board of Directors. Huang is a senior faculty associate in biology at the California Institute of Technology.
Here are the full election results, with all terms starting at the end of the 2011 Annual Meeting:
General Offices
President-Elect: William H. Press
Board of Directors: Raymond L. Orbach; Inder M. Verma
Committee on Nominations: Francisco J. Ayala; Sandra M. Faber; Jo Handelsman; Thomas D. Pollard
Section on Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Chair-Elect: Donald R. Ort
Member-at-Large: Cynthia Rosenzweig
Electorate Nominating Committee: Harry J. Klee; Richard T. Sayre
Section on Anthropology
Chair-Elect: Leslie C. Aiello
Member-at-Large: Susan Antón
Electorate Nominating Committee: Arlen F. Chase; Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Section on Astronomy
Chair-Elect: Charles Alcock
Member-at-Large: Amy J. Barger
Electorate Nominating Committee: Heidi B. Hammel; Scott J. Kenyon
Section on Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Chair-Elect: Susan K. Avery
Member-at-Large: Michael E. Mann
Electorate Nominating Committee: Randall M. Dole; Ronald G. Prinn
Council Delegate: Lynn D. Talley
Section on Biological Sciences
Chair-Elect: Gary Felsenfeld
Member-at-Large: Nancy J. Cox
Electorate Nominating Committee: Deborah E. Goldberg; Anna Marie Skalka
Section on Chemistry
Chair-Elect: Alison Butler
Member-at-Large: Bruce A. Parkinson
Electorate Nominating Committee: Peter C. Ford; Hilary A. Godwin
Section on Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Chair-Elect: Barbara D. Boyan
Member-at-Large: Susan Kinder Haake
Electorate Nominating Committee: Susan Reisine; Bjorn Steffensen
Council Delegate: Jacques E. Nör
Section on Education
Chair-Elect: Judith A. Ramaley
Member-at-Large: Susan Rundell Singer
Electorate Nominating Committee: Anne E. Egger; Gerald R. Van Hecke
Council Delegate: Arthur Eisenkraft
Section on Engineering
Chair-Elect: John L. Anderson
Member-at-Large: J. Gary Eden
Electorate Nominating Committee: Margaret Murnane; Sarah A. Rajala
Section on General Interest in Science and Engineering
Chair-Elect: Sharon Dunwoody
Member-at-Large: Katarina Nordqvist
Electorate Nominating Committee: Kathleen M.B. Boomer; Kathryn E. Perez
Council Delegate: JoAnn M. Valenti
Section on Geology and Geography
Chair-Elect: Glen M. MacDonald
Member-at-Large: Paul H. Glaser
Electorate Nominating Committee: Kenneth P. Kodama; Ester Sztein
Section on History and Philosophy of Science
Chair-Elect: Jed Z. Buchwald
Member-at-Large: Sandra D. Mitchell
Electorate Nominating Committee: Hanne Andersen; Alan E. Shapiro
Section on Industrial Science and Technology
Chair-Elect: Cammy R. Abernathy
Member-at-Large: Daniel J.C. Herr
Electorate Nominating Committee: Richard Broglie; Gordon D. Jarvinen
Section on Information, Computing, and Communication
Chair-Elect: Francine Berman
Member-at-Large: Christine L. Borgman
Electorate Nominating Committee: Barbara Simons; Eugene H. Spafford
Council Delegate: Michael R. Nelson
Section on Linguistics and Language Science
Chair-Elect: John A. Goldsmith
Member-at-Large: Joan A. Sereno
Electorate Nominating Committee: Karen Emmorey; Maria Polinsky
Council Delegate: D. Terence Langendoen
Section on Mathematics
Chair-Elect: Jill P. Mesirov
Member-at-Large: Joceline Lega
Electorate Nominating Committee: James Crowley; Linda Petzold
Section on Medical Sciences
Chair-Elect: Ann M. Arvin
Member-at-Large: Arturo Casadevall
Electorate Nominating Committee: Douglas D. Richman; Guy A. Zimmerman
Section on Neuroscience
Chair-Elect: David M. Holtzman
Member-at-Large: Amita Sehgal
Electorate Nominating Committee: Karen Hsiao Ashe; Jeanne M. Nerbonne
Section on Pharmaceutical Sciences
Chair-Elect: Sidney D. Nelson
Member-at-Large: John R. Cashman
Electorate Nominating Committee: Maria Croyle; Barbara E. Hayes
Council Delegate: Jeanette C. Roberts
Section on Physics
Chair-Elect: Allen Goldman
Member-at-Large: Edmund Bertschinger
Electorate Nominating Committee: Malcolm R. Beasley; David K. Campbell
Section on Psychology
Chair-Elect: Richard J. Davidson
Member-at-Large: Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser
Electorate Nominating Committee: Nora S. Newcombe; Michael Rugg
Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Chair-Elect: Craig Calhoun
Member-at-Large: Julia Lane
Electorate Nominating Committee: Wendy Baldwin; Cecilia L. Ridgeway
Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Chair-Elect: Peter D. Blair
Member-at-Large: Anne Fitzpatrick
Electorate Nominating Committee: Christopher Hill; Dena Plemmons
Council Delegate: C.K. Gunsalus
Section on Statistics
Chair-Elect: Mitchell H. Gail
Member-at-Large: Alan F. Karr
Electorate Nominating Committee: Charmain Dean; Larry Wasserman
Council Delegate: Paul P. Biemer